Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.35 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a small yacht was aground on the Barrow Sands. A helicopter took off and at 8.55 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched in a rough sea. A west- south-westerly wind of nearly gale force was blowing, and the tide was ebbing.

The life-boat found the yacht Bridget of Felixstowe with a crew of two. They were taken on board the life-boat, which then towed the yacht to Southend, arriving at 3.45. Rewards to the crew, £13 15s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £6 18s..